Posted by: Francis Whittle
on January 10, 2004 04:40 AM
I'd say the story here is that it was half made-up, and half invented. Alright. Split that down 99% and make the other 1% possibilities in the Eddys of the time/space continuum.
The point is, that much of coporate IBM, being mostly made up of managers, probably would not surivive such a fast transition to Linux. I.e. It's not going to happen - at least not within less than a 5 year time scale. It is true that IBM has put some thought into the Linux desktop, but nothing on that large a scale could happen in such a short timespace - face it, two years to shift that much data into a new format, and that many mostly clueless managers to a platform that requires actualk thought? Many of the technical people in IBM would jump at the chance, but it's just not that likely.
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I don't think that "leaked" memo came from IBM.
Posted by: Francis Whittle on January 10, 2004 04:40 AMThe point is, that much of coporate IBM, being mostly made up of managers, probably would not surivive such a fast transition to Linux. I.e. It's not going to happen - at least not within less than a 5 year time scale.
It is true that IBM has put some thought into the Linux desktop, but nothing on that large a scale could happen in such a short timespace - face it, two years to shift that much data into a new format, and that many mostly clueless managers to a platform that requires actualk thought? Many of the technical people in IBM would jump at the chance, but it's just not that likely.
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